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What was your win this week???

Jess Lee on December 19, 2025

👋👋👋👋 Looking back on your week -- what was something you're proud of? All wins count -- big or small 🎉 Examples of 'wins' include: Getting a p...

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Anna Villarreal • Dec 19 '25

An energy packed week!

I found out I won my first DEV challenege, for which I am grateful.
New employment - I am onboarding and start next month! (A massive upgrade from part time with no benefits) And even better... there might be chances to do coding at the new job at some point!
I spent three days baking and wrapping for the holidays!

Ben Halpern The DEV Team • Dec 19 '25

Big week!

Olaf Snowman • Dec 20 '25

Hi
How are you?
could you let me knw contact info, I want to knw some tech issues.
thanks

Jess Lee The DEV Team • Dec 19 '25

Congratulations!! Also that kittttten 😻

Sasan Ace • Dec 23 '25

I've created an offline console contest among CPU scheduling algorithms; simple but I really love the way it judges among SJF, SRTF, RR, and FIFO, take a look at github.com/Sana-Allah-Kheiri/CPU-S... and tell me how can I improve it, esp it's Ui as I want to make it fool-proof; you know why? "Because if you can not teach your illitrate granny physics laws, then you have not learned anything!" _ Albert Timestein

Varshith V Hegde • Dec 19 '25

Awesome , Congratulations 🎉

Sasan Ace • Dec 24 '25

Thanks

Chris Jarvis • Dec 19 '25

Congratulations, that's very cool.

Sasan Ace • Dec 24 '25

I appreciate that

Varshith V Hegde • Dec 19 '25

This week, I finally motivated my friends enough to participate in the Dev.to challenge together
We’re all going to compete in the next challenge separately, and on top of that, we decided to create our own internal judging to review each other’s work and choose a winner.
Feels great to turn motivation into action and build something fun together .
I will take this as a win.

Anna Villarreal • Dec 19 '25

I'm trying to convince people as well LOL

Varshith V Hegde • Dec 19 '25

Yeah same here . It took me soooo long 🫠😅

Jess Lee The DEV Team • Dec 19 '25

Yay!!

Piotr Daniel • Dec 19 '25

I got my first ever GitHub stars (4) for my QNote project.

Whilst a small achievement, it does boost the confidence a lot!

Jess Lee The DEV Team • Dec 19 '25

nice!!

Daniel Nwaneri • Dec 19 '25

My win this week: Published an article synthesizing two trending posts into something new—showing how edge computing's economic constraints are bringing back software discipline through your bank account, not ethics.
Writing it forced me to crystallize lessons from running 500K+ daily API calls on Cloudflare Workers. Turns out, when the platform bills you per millisecond, waste stops being a "bad practice" and becomes actual money leaving your account.
dev.to/dannwaneri/why-edge-computi...
The best part? It's Friday afternoon, so hopefully it catches weekend traffic 🤞

Bharathkumar • Dec 19 '25

My win this week: shipping git-scope v1.3.0, adding in-app workspace switching and symlink support, and seeing the project pick up 33 GitHub stars along with two first-time contributors.

The best part has been the quality of feedback — people are discussing real multi-repo workflows, not just features. That’s been very motivating.

Written 4 articles in dev.to

Website: bharath-code.github.io/git-scope/
Repo: github.com/Bharath-code/git-scope

Chris Jarvis • Dec 19 '25

Finished some CSS Ugly Sweater art, Posted about it this morning. Did some other writing. Got the majority of Christmas shopping done.

Ugly Sweater CSS: Droids.

Chris Jarvis ・ Dec 19

#css #tutorial #frontend #art

Web Developer Hyper • Dec 19 '25

I'm quite addicted to Claude Code saying You're absolutely right!, and I can't get it out of my head. So I wrote a post about it on DEV Community. 🤯

🧠How to make Codex boost your mood like good old Claude Code (Getting back You're absolutely right!)🤖
dev.to/webdeveloperhyper/how-to-ma...

Ben Halpern The DEV Team • Dec 19 '25

lol

EmberNoGlow • Dec 19 '25 • Edited

I have started developing my dream project - a 3d editor written in Python and Glsl using raymarching and SDF (Signed Distance Function)!

Manish Joshi • Dec 19 '25

That’s awesome — raymarching + SDF is no joke 👏

Starting a dream project is a big win.

Small suggestion (only if useful):

I recently built a tiny CLI that keeps README.md in sync with code, because my docs kept breaking as projects grew.

Might help once your editor gets more complex:
npx readme-fast

Either way, best of luck — would love to see how it evolves!

EmberNoGlow • Dec 19 '25

Thanks )

Trpn • Dec 19 '25

After much procrastination, I finally consolidated 5 Elixir/Phoenix apps into one and deployed it to Gigalixir free‑tier — my first go at it! (•̀ᴗ•́ )و

Oleg Dubovoi • Dec 20 '25

This week, my team and I won on ProductHunt with the launch of our new app MultiDrive, and we received the “Product of the Day” award.

We have been developing this app for several years. It is a desktop application for simple disk operations: cloning, backup, and secure wiping of an entire drive. The app is completely free, has a user-friendly interface, and no ads.

Six months ago, I published an article on dev.to about how we developed this app — from the initial idea to the release.

You can read it here: The Story Behind MultiDrive.

If you would like to support our project, please give us an upvote on ProductHunt. We would really appreciate it!

Jess Lee The DEV Team • Dec 22 '25

Nice work, congratulations!!

Oleg Dubovoi • Dec 22 '25

Thanks! :)

Alex • Dec 20 '25

Great job! Congrats!

Oleg Dubovoi • Dec 20 '25

Thanks!

frontend dev • Dec 20 '25

nice!!!

Cesar Aguirre • Dec 19 '25 • Edited

Finished the Advent of Code over here

Varshith V Hegde • Dec 19 '25

Awesome

Giorgi Kobaidze • Dec 19 '25

After an unreasonable amount of time, caffeine, and questioning my life choices, I finally finished this monster of an article.

It's a 37-minute read and no, that's not a typo.

I know that sounds outrageous, but considering everything I had to cover, this is basically the short version.

Here's the article for anyone who's bored enough or mentally prepared to read it 😄

dev.to/georgekobaidze/net-10-the-p...

Varshith V Hegde • Dec 20 '25

Ohhh Wow 😲!!!

Ben Halpern The DEV Team • Dec 19 '25

Great offsite 🙂

Varshith V Hegde • Dec 19 '25

Nice 🙂

Aditya Kumar • Dec 19 '25

I was awarded for completing at least one prompt in the AI Challenge for Cross-Platform Apps. Thank you for participating! 💻

programador51 • Dec 20 '25

My chrome extension is growing, last months putting more effort to be more attractive with the time and get more downloads 💵

Nicolas • Dec 20 '25 • Edited

This week’s win: going all in on reverse-engineering my LG webOS TV and pushing it far beyond its stock capabilities !

I’ve had my LG OLED C1 rooted for about two years, but this week I finally took the time to deeply explore and hack the features I’d been wanting to build:

Built a custom on-device voice assistant to replace Google Assistant, which was removed in May:
- Microphone capture from the TV remote
- Audio recording in PCM
- Conversion to WAV
- Speech-to-text via the Groq Whisper API
- YouTube search
- TV settings control
- Home Assistant triggers for smart-home devices
Successfully compiled CEC-Utils, enabling full CEC control of my amplifier:
- Power on/off
- Volume control
- Real-time volume state
Replaced the default screensaver with a custom image using a smooth panning effect to reduce OLED burn-in risk.
Built a custom web app to completely replace the stock LG dashboard:
- No ads
- Noticeably faster navigation

Shout-out to Claude 4.5 Opus and Gemini 3 Pro for helping me finally crack and reverse-engineer parts I’d been stuck on for a long time.

Jess Lee The DEV Team • Dec 22 '25

Very cool! Would love to read an in-depth both about this!

Julien Avezou • Dec 22 '25

Last week I made good progress on my side project! I am currently writing an article to share learnings so far. I am also educating myself on Machine Learning strategies and AI systems.
Looking forward to this week and happy holidays to all!

Vladyslav • Dec 22 '25

Today feels a bit special for me: our StringTune promo site got an Awwwards SOTD, which is already pretty cool.

But on a more personal note, I also finally published StringTune-3D to npm. It’s my own module for StringTune that lets you control 3D via CSS — something I’ve been thinking about and tinkering with for a long time.

I never quite had the space to finish it properly, but after wrapping up the site, I managed to ship a first alpha. It’s still rough, but I genuinely love the idea behind it.

Just wanted to share this small moment.

Pascal Reitermann • Dec 21 '25 • Edited

This week I published my very first technical blog post 🚀
I’ve wanted to start writing for a while, so finally hitting “publish” feels like a big milestone. I dug deep into securing Solace monitoring with OAuth and had a lot of fun learning (and struggling a bit 😄) along the way. Excited to keep writing!

dev.to/pascalre/securing-solace-me...

Amjad Abujamous • Dec 21 '25

Finished most of the end-of-year of objectives and working towards closing the rest. Onto a great new year!

Peter Ogbonna • Dec 20 '25

I published an article on writing cleaner code as a react developer
dev.to/peterintech/stop-writing-me...

Ronaldo Modesto • Dec 22 '25

I finally finished an old project of mine! It’s a site designed to make reporting scams and cyberattacks fast and simple. I’d really appreciate any feedback you have. Check it out here: cyber-alerts.com.br 🚀

adriens • Dec 20 '25 • Edited

I made a Go API based scrapper to show off the benefits of providing an open API and how it would ipact customers UX :

Himanshu Sorathiya • Dec 20 '25

Finally, this week, my lazy ass woke up and finally started working on my new small react project of notes taking app for refreshment of React, Redux and RTKQuery knowledge then again jumping back my main project for v2

Completed all requirements gathering, processed all informations, thought of many other notes app and implementing many new features which traditional apps lack and will start implementing from now on.

Anirudh Mathur • Dec 22 '25

I wrote a compiler for my own language! I’ve been wanting to finish that project for two years now!!!

Jess Lee The DEV Team • Dec 22 '25

Congrats for getting it done!

Brennan K. Brown • Dec 22 '25

Finished my IndieWeb 11ty a11y-friendly old-school weblog! brennan.day/

Priya Negi • Dec 22 '25

crossing 7k github stars

Pascal CESCATO • Dec 24 '25

I migrated my two n8n workflows (31 nodes each with calls to PostgreSQL and LLMs, JavaScript, email sending, etc.) to Python in under two hours, thanks to Claude! The result: no more bugs, no more tweaking with each new version of n8n, and more robust and faster code. The application is well-structured, the code is clear and maintainable—pure bliss!

Kiran Naragund • Dec 20 '25

A week full of 🫶 from the community.

Shipped DEV Wrapped 2025 -> dev-wrapped.com

Aryan Choudhary • Dec 22 '25

Another strong week!

Earned the Next.js badge
Deployed a new project
Defined a clear scope for a long-term idea I’ve wanted to build for a while
Made it further than ever in interview rounds
Feeling more confident explaining my work and thinking in systems instead of just features

Hoping to hear back before the new year, but proud of the momentum regardless.

Web Developer Hyper • Dec 23 '25

Hooray! You had many wins this week. I hope you have a good result for your interviews.😊

Aryan Choudhary • Dec 23 '25

Thank you! I hope so too (o′┏▽┓｀o)

Erica • Dec 23 '25 • Edited

Three wins this week, across all lanes.

Work: Hit 100% of my December sales target before the holiday 🎯
School: Wrapped up my DAD220 + CS210 projects and finished the term with a 4.0
Personal: finished my current book and started the next 📚

Wrapping up 2025 feeling really positive. Returned to school this year, started a new job, and even somehow still managed to keep the kids alive. 😅

Balancing work, school, and parenting life isn’t always glamorous, but finishing strong feels really good. I’m also learning to leave space for myself, whether that’s reading or other small hobbies, and not saving rest for “after everything’s done.”

Turns out balance is a skill worth practicing, too.
Momentum feels better when it leaves room to breathe.

John Kenny • Dec 20 '25

Everything was scattered before, i used to work full day with no productivity and i knew something was off. when is started to think i came to a conclusion that work without goals is not productive and i was doing unimportant things on priority. So, i made a schedule being an entrepreneur and now i am working by a checklist and my productivity was increased by 100 times.

Scott Raisbeck • Dec 23 '25

By far it was getting to the bottom of my why I was having to authenticate every hour on my own MCP, it was such a pain and interrupted my workflow massively.

Read all about it

It genuinely feels like getting a super power back.

Simran Shaikh • Dec 21 '25

I was amazing experience while sharing knowledge on dev.to

Learn lots of things from other folks 😀

Bhavesh Kukreja • Dec 23 '25

Last week made my first pull request :)

Ezekiel • Dec 25 '25

I wrapped up Form validation(JavaScript)

Dhruba Patra • Dec 23 '25

Published a beta for our app : voiden.md/

Rajat Arora • Dec 23 '25

I wrote my first article here... seven years after signing up to dev.to!

MihaiHng • Dec 23 '25 • Edited

Started my Ethereum-Solidity Quiz on dev.to

Chandan Galani • Dec 23 '25

We built an API that lets AI systems check if humans actually care before acting.
It’s a simple intent-verification gate for AI agents.
Early access, prepaid usage.

Jayden Swart • Dec 24 '25

I spent a week on a realistic fluid simulator. 3 of which was spent trying to figure out the math. Finally finished it today

For Example:

// Solves linear differential equations (Poisson/Diffusion) using Gauss-Seidel relaxation
        lin_solve(b, x, x0, a, c) {
            const n = this.size;
            const recip_c = 1.0 / c;
            for (let k = 0; k < ITER; k++) {
                for (let j = 1; j < n - 1; j++) {
                    for (let i = 1; i < n - 1; i++) {
                        x[i + j * n] =
                            (x0[i + j * n] +
                                a * (x[i + 1 + j * n] +
                                    x[i - 1 + j * n] +
                                    x[i + (j + 1) * n] +
                                    x[i + (j - 1) * n])) * recip_c;
                    }
                }
                this.set_bnd(b, x);
            }
        }

        // Enforces incompressibility (Mass Conservation): ∇•u = 0
        project(velocX, velocY, p, div) {
            const n = this.size;
            for (let j = 1; j < n - 1; j++) {
                for (let i = 1; i < n - 1; i++) {
                    // Calculate divergence (how much fluid is expanding/compressing at this pixel)
                    div[i + j * n] = -0.5 * (
                        velocX[i + 1 + j * n] - velocX[i - 1 + j * n] +
                        velocY[i + (j + 1) * n] - velocY[i + (j - 1) * n]
                    ) / n;
                    p[i + j * n] = 0;
                }
            }
            this.set_bnd(0, div);
            this.set_bnd(0, p);

            // Solve Poisson equation for pressure
            this.lin_solve(0, p, div, 1, 4);

            for (let j = 1; j < n - 1; j++) {
                for (let i = 1; i < n - 1; i++) {
                    // Subtract pressure gradient from velocity
                    velocX[i + j * n] -= 0.5 * (p[i + 1 + j * n] - p[i - 1 + j * n]) * n;
                    velocY[i + j * n] -= 0.5 * (p[i + (j + 1) * n] - p[i + (j - 1) * n]) * n;
                }
            }
            this.set_bnd(1, velocX);
            this.set_bnd(2, velocY);

            this.pressure.set(p); 
        }

All in all, it was quite a fun project. I don't have any need for this. If anyone would like a demo, just get in touch

David Schwartz • Dec 24 '25

I completed MVP-1 for a "Prompts as a Service" thing I'm working on. I'm tired of having to spend 6 hours a day driving around town for Uber + Lyft to pay my bills. I'd rather be working on this full-time.

Sasan Ace • Dec 26 '25

Prompts as a Service? sounds creative!

Muhammad Fauzan • Dec 25 '25

In an effort to land a DE job in Aussie this week I've been documenting one of the big projects I've done in the past year, and between digging for documentation, writing README's, updating resumes, imo job searching is another job all together. But we get it done nonetheless!

Mohammad Arab • Dec 21 '25

i start learning backend with js and is better than frontend i think

Tronixtek • Dec 21 '25

I completed an attendance tracking project
Configured the hardware
Architected the backend
Implemented both front-end and backend
writing the APIs was quite tough

Sasan Ace • Dec 24 '25

I've also practiced backup/restore and flashing android firmware using Odin, the basic skills for a phone repair specialist; I also recorded this practice, and after an endless night, I could edit it using Microsoft Clipchamp; finally shared it on our corporate YouTube channel 👇

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5--ADTKl048&feature=youtu.be

I've enrolled phone repair courses on-site, fortunately in my own beautiful hometown with a pro-level mentor who knows how to create from bare-metal layer to UI layer, unlike academic lecturers who wasted my best times for a worth-less paper called CS BSc degree

Jorge Hiram Castro • Dec 24 '25

Triple pull request for my own Project <3

Dhruba Patra • Dec 24 '25

Got some great reaction for our work on our api client on our socials!

Miko bangOA • Dec 24 '25

Done the python course... BTW arch linux

Chandra Shekar • Dec 22 '25

Started to learn things needed for Devops although people say it is not for freshers.

DDLTODATA • Dec 26 '25

launched a thing on christmas because i have no life ddltodata.com

paste your SQL schema → get realistic test data it's free and it works and my family is disappointed